Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Sergey Lavrov
since February 24, 2004
Appointer President of Russia
First holder Ivan Viskovatyi (1st head of the Russian Foreign Ministry)
Andrey Kozyrev (1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)
Website www.mid.ru

This is a list of foreign ministers of Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.

Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549–1699

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
1 Ivan Viskovatyi January 2, 1549 August 2, 1562[1] Ivan IV
2 Andrey Vasilyev September, 1562 July 25, 1570
3 Andrey Shchelkalov November, 1570 June 17, 1594
4 Vasily Shchelkalov June 30, 1594 May, 1601 Feodor I
Boris Godunov
5 Afanasy Vlasyev May, 1601 May 8, 1605
Feodor II
6 Ivan Gramotin August, 1605 February 14, 1606 False Dmitriy I
7 Vasily Telepnev 1606 Marh, 1611 Vasili IV
False Dmitry II
8 Ivan Gramotin November 20, 1611 September, 1612
– Fedor Androsov
(Acting)		 September, 1612 June, 1613
9 Pyotr Tretyakov June, 1613 May 16, 1618 Michael I
10 Ivan Gramotin May, 1618 December 21, 1626
11 Efim Telepnev December 22, 1626 July 30, 1630
12 Fedor Likhachov September 21, 1630 December 25, 1631
13 Ivan Gryazev October 1, 1632 April 17, 1634
14 Ivan Gramotin May 19, 1634 July 19, 1635
15 Fedor Likhachov September 21, 1635 September 1, 1643
16 Grigory Lvov September 1, 1643 December 27, 1646
Alexis
17 Nazary Chistoy January 6, 1647 June 2, 1648
18 Mikhail Volosheninov Jaly 4, 1648 April, 1653
19 Almaz Ivanov September 28, 1653 March 10, 1667
21 Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin Jaly 15, 1667 February 21, 1671
22 Artamon Matveyev February 22, 1671 July 3, 1676
23 Larion Ivanov July 4, 1676 December 21, 1680
Feodor III
24 Vasily Volynsky December 21, 1680 May 6, 1681
– Larion Ivanov
(Acting)		 May 6, 1681 May 15, 1682
Sofia Alekseyevna,
Ivan V
and Peter I
25 Vasily Galitzine May 17, 1682 September 6, 1689
26 Emelian Ukraintsev September 6, 1689 April 19, 1699 Ivan V
and Peter I
27 Lev Naryshkin 1697 1699 Peter I

Chancellors and vice-chancellors of the Russian Empire, 1699–1801

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
28 Fyodor Golovin February 18, 1700 August 2, 1706 Peter I
29 Pyotr Shafirov September 1706 1708
30 Gavriil Golovkin 1708 January 20, 1734
Catherine I
Peter II
Anna
31 Andrey Osterman 1734 1740
32 Aleksey Tcherkassky November 10, 1740 November 4, 1742 Ivan VI
33 Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin November 4, 1742 February 15, 1758 Elizabeth
34 Mikhail Vorontsov November 23, 1758 October 27, 1763
Peter III
35 Nikita Panin October 27, 1763 April 10, 1781 Catherine II
36 Ivan Osterman April 10, 1781 May 2, 1797
37 Aleksandr Bezborodko May 2, 1797 April 6, 1799 Paul I
38 Fyodor Rostopchin April 6, 1799 February 20, 1801
39 Nikita Panin March 23, 1801 September 30, 1801 Alexander I

Foreign ministers of the Russian Empire, 1801–1917

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
40 Viktor Kochubey September 30, 1801 September 8, 1802 Alexander I
41 Alexander Vorontsov September 8, 1802 January 16, 1804
42 Adam Jerzy Czartoryski January 16, 1804 Juny 17, 1806
43 Andrei Budberg Juny 17, 1806 August 30, 1807
43 Nikolay Rumiantsev February 12, 1808 August 1, 1814
44 Karl Nesselrode 1814 April 15, 1856
Nicholas I
45 Alexander Gorchakov April 15, 1856 9 April 1882 Alexander II
46 Nicholas de Giers April 9, 1882 January 26, 1895 Alexander III
47 Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky March 18, 1895 August 30, 1896 Nicholas II
48 Nikolay Shishkin September 1, 1896 January 13, 1897
49 Mikhail Muravyov January 13, 1897 June 21, 1900
50 Vladimir Lambsdorff January 6, 1901 May 11, 1906
51 Alexander Izvolsky May 11, 1906 October 11, 1910
52 Sergey Sazonov October 11, 1910 July 20, 1916
53 Boris Stürmer July 20, 1916 November 23, 1916
53 Nikolay Pokrovsky November 23, 1916 March 2, 1917

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
54 Pavel Milyukov March 2, 1917 May 1, 1917 George Lvov
55 Mikhail Tereshchenko May 5, 1917 October 29, 1917
Alexander Kerensky

Foreign Ministers of the Russian SFSR: 1917–23

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
56 Lev Trotsky November 8, 1917 April 9, 1918 Vladimir Lenin
57 Georgy Chicherin April 9, 1918 July 6, 1923

Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1923–91

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
57 Georgy Chicherin July 6, 1923 July 21, 1930 Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
58 Maxim Litvinov July 21, 1930 May 3, 1939
59 Vyacheslav Molotov May 3, 1939 March 4, 1949
60 Andrey Vyshinsky March 4, 1949 March 5, 1953
61 Vyacheslav Molotov March 5, 1953 June 1, 1956
Nikita Khrushchev
62 Dmitri Shepilov June 1, 1956 February 15, 1957
63 Andrei Gromyko February 15, 1957 July 27, 1985
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
64 Eduard Shevardnadze July 28, 1985 December 20, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
65 Aleksandr Bessmertnykh January 15, 1991 August 28, 1991
66 Boris Pankin August 28, 1991 November 14, 1991
67 Eduard Shevardnadze November 19, 1991 December 26, 1991

Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, 1991–

№ Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
68 Andrey Kozyrev December 25, 1991 January 5, 1996 Boris Yeltsin
69 Yevgeny Primakov January 10, 1996 September 11, 1998
70 Igor Ivanov September 30, 1998 February 24, 2004
Vladimir Putin
71 Sergey Lavrov February 24, 2004 Incumbent
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin

See also

References

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